Independent Films’ New Path to Financing

by Peter D. Marshall on May 10, 2010

This article was written by Jeff Steele.

Indie filmmakers are always looking for money, and as I wrote in my last post, as conventional forms of financing for indie films continue to dry up, enterprising producers have discovered an unprecedented new resource for money: they’re going online and hitting up their audiences. This online solicitation is called “crowd-funding” or “tribe-funding.” This lets the audience members who care most about a film its “tribe” — play a bigger role in getting it made.”
Read the rest of this article from Huffington Post.

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